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Bhaigiri...Gandhigiri...and the latest is Rajgiri!

Bachna Ae Haseeno deals with an issue which means nothing to an activist or an industrialist or an environmentalist or for that matter anybody. It is not even an entertainer. But still it teaches a few lessons.

The meaning of love and companionship changes as we age. It is different when you are a 15 year old school going teenager and when you are a 30 year old single. The male protagonist Raj meets 3 women in 12 years and the movie is about his story with each of these women. He breaks the heart of 2 of these women and the third one manages to break the heart of this heart-breaker. It is then that he realizes what he has been doing all his life. May be Mahi and Gayatri were only 2 of the several women he came across. He decides to ask for forgiveness from the two women and manages to do that too. And, somehow magically his goodness is rewarded by a change of heart of the third woman, who runs into his arms and the movie ends with a kiss and a sunset in the background. Quite nice!

Real life can be less rewarding. So all of you guys who think that saying "Sorry!" will make Deepika Padukone come in your arms, you are highly mistaken. However, if you feel that knowingly or unknowingly you have hurt somebody in past (be it any relation), then asking for forgiveness doesn't degrade your position.

About the movie...

Ranbir Kapoor can act.

Minnisha Lamba should use Pond's Age Miracle.

Bipasha Basu can also act (apart from her other specialization).

Deepika Padukone should get treated for stiff back.

The song Bachna Ae Haseeno and Khuda Jaane are the highlights of the movie.

The DDLJ-connection was irritating at times.

Dhoom did not release in or before 1996.

There is nothing special about Rajgiri. Most of the guys (>50% & <100%) think and behave the same way.

Raj is a very regular guy. Most guys have the same growing-up experiences. Some don't grow up till they turn 50 while some of them mature as early as 25 (rare cases!).

"It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves."
-Edmund Hillary
Two years back, when I had set out on my first trek in the Himalayas, I did not know what I was getting into. It began as a quest, a search for the place that I was dreaming about for the last few years. Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand did turn out to be straight out of my dream and I still cannot believe it. I remember sitting on that large asymmetrical rock for more than an hour, looking at the snow-clad mountains and scribbling in my diary as the cool wind blew in my face and the sun tried its best to warm my fingers.
Less than a year later, I went back to the mountains and it was then that I realized that I was meant to go back, not once or twice or thrice, I just have to be there every once in a while. May be that recurring dream had a bigger purpose than calling me to the Valley of Flowers. May be someone up there knew that it was just a beginning. And now that it has started, it shall go on till my…

I was talking to this friend after a long time and the first two questions he asked me were, 'What movie did you watch last weekend?' and 'Where are you traveling to next?'. I refused to answer his questions till he first asked me how I was. We laughed and he said that he keeps seeing my updates on movies and travel and wonders when he will find time to do that.

I have always loved to travel. I remember once my parents asked my brother and me to make a wishlist of things that we wanted. I had added 'Trip to Delhi' to that list. Then came a time when all the focus was on board exams and competitive exams, and the joy of traveling was forgotten because it mostly meant going to a new city to give some exam.
It all restarted once I came to Mumbai, 13 years back. Before I landed in this city I had turned into a shy, timid girl whose friends used to help her cross the road and get a rickshaw for her so that she doesn't have to talk to the rickshaw-wala. I can…

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A mischievous child who grew up experimenting on her sibling and ended up manipulating mice. In the course of growing up the area of interest changed from psychology to immunology. Exists in this field coz of love for science. But loves other things too like writing, sketching and painting. Would like to do something which combines all her major interests.